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Arrest made in quadruple shooting outside nightclub

Updated on September 11, 2017 at 3:25 PMPosted on September 10, 2017 at 4:57 PM

Lionel Cheneau, 31, was booked in connection with a quadruple shooting at North Claiborne and Elysian Fields avenues on Sunday, September 10, 2017. (Image courtesy of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office)

Lionel Cheneau, 31, was booked in connection with a quadruple shooting at North Claiborne and Elysian Fields avenues on Sunday, September 10, 2017. (Image courtesy of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office)

Lionel Cheneau, 31, was booked into Orleans Parish jail Sunday afternoon in connection with the shooting. He is being held on a count of attempted second-degree murder and three counts of aggravated battery by shooting, court records show.

In a news release, authorities say officers responding to a call of shots fired around 1:45 a.m. Sunday arrived at the nightclub to find four people wounded. Three of the people shot were women and one was a man, police say.

Upon investigation, NOPD detectives learned the wounded man and another person later identified as Cheneau got into an argument at the nightclub's bar, according to the news release. The two men kept arguing as they left the club and made for their respective vehicles in the club's parking lot, where police say Cheneau grabbed a gun from his vehicle and fired multiple rounds at the other man.

The man was shot more than once, as were three women standing in a group nearby, NOPD's news release states. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. All three women were also taken to a hospital for treatment.

After the shooting, authorities say Cheneau flagged down Louisiana State Police troopers patrolling the area and said he'd been shot at by unknown gunmen. Cheneau was then taken to NOPD's 5th District station, where police say he confessed "his involvement" in the shooting during an interview with detectives, the news release states.

Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to contact NOPD 5th District detectives at 504-658-6050. You may also call Crimestoppers anonymously at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 1-877-903-STOP.

The intersection of North Claiborne and Elysian Fields avenues. (Google Maps)

This story has been corrected to note that police described the male victim as in critical condition in a news release issued Sunday.